Hat-holder.



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PATENTBD AUG. 1, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAT-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application led July Il, 1904;.V Serial No. 216,016.

To LZ/Z whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ELLIOT BAKER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Holders,of which the following is a specication.

The object of my invention is to provide means for holding hats inhat-boxes in such a manner that they will not come in contact with theinterior of the box during shipment and will not be marred or rubbed bythe holder or by the box; and to this end my invention consists mainlyin combining with a Spanner adapted to engage with the edges ot' thehat-box a hat-holding device adapted to suspend the hat inside of thebox from the said spanner.

The invention also consists in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts, all asl hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which forma part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of my inventionapplied to a hat-box, the cover of the box being removed. Fig. 2 is asectional elevation of the same on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional elevation on line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. l is a plan viewofthe hat-holder proper detached from the box-brace.

In the drawings, A designates a Spanner and brace for the hat-box, and Bdesignates the hat-holding deviceproper, which is attached to andsuspended in the hat-box from the said spanner. l

The box-Spanner is composed, by preference, of the strips or plates a a,each formed with flanges a a at the ends adapted to embrace the edges ofthe hat-box D on opposite diameters, as shown clearly in Fig. l. rlhestrips or plates a a are crossed in the center,

and at this point each is formed with a depression a2, and in saiddepression the plates are secured by a bolt d and nut c. One of theplates, the lowermost one, is formed or provided with stops or lugs ff,which serve to prevent the hat-holder B from revolving upon the bolt d.Any suitable :t'ormoic stop may be employed in place of the said lugs.

The hat-holder B is composed of the two frames or members Z2 b', (seeFig. 1h) which are clamped together by the bolt d andthe nut d', whichlatter works on the said bolt between the Spanner and the members of thehat-holder, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. The member of thehat-holder is formed with a main body-plate t, two lateral angle-arms Itle', which are bent downward to form legs 71,2 7a2 and thenupward toform the keepers 7a3 7b3, which are adapted to receive the sweat-band ofthe hat to suspend it thereby, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. l, 2,and 3. The said body member /L is formed with a slot and with the lipif, which acts as a guide and stop in the slot of the other member b ofthe hatholder.

The member b of the hat-holder is formed with the main body-plate m,through which the bolt CZ passes and in which it is held. It

is slotted, as shown at m', to receive the lip h5 of the member o, asshown clearly in Fig. 3, and it is formed with a lip m2, which works inthe slot it* of the member b, so that by loosening the nut OZ the twomembers may be adjusted out and in according to the size of the hat tobe held. Otherwise the member is in all respects like the member b-thatis to say, it is formed with the lateral anglearms m3 m3 and the legs m4m4, which are bent back to form the keepers m5 m5.

In use the hat-holder proper, B, is detached Jfrom the box-Spanner byremoving the nut o from the bolt d. The nut ci. is then loosened and themembers adjusted to the size of vthe hat and the sweat-band placed inthe keepers 7a3 and m5. sion is put in the keepers k3 m5, so that theywill press outwardly against the body of the hat, thus holding it rmlyin place. The nut d is then screwed down tightly, and then thespanner isplaced upon the bolt d and the nut c screwed down, when the whole isready to be placed upon the edge of the hat-box D, as shown in Figs. l,2, and 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

' l. A hat-holder comprising two main members united at the center, eachcomposedof a main central body and formed with lateral arms, each armbeing formed with a downwardly-projecting leg and each leg with anupwardly-projecting spring-keeper which presses against the body of thehat and holds the sweat-band between it and the downwardlyprojectingleg, substantially as described.

2. A hat-holder formed with lateral arms bent downward to form legs andeach leg bent upward to form keeper for holding the hat, and a bolt atthe center of .the hat-holder, in

In this adjustment a spring tencombination with a Spanner adapted to beapplied to the edge of the hat-box and to the center of which thehat-holder is detachably connected by said bolt, substantially asdescribed.

3. A Spanner for a hat-box, comprising two centrally-crossed plates,each formed with an apertured depression at the center,and formed withdownwardly-projecting end flanges to embrace the edge of the hat-box, incombination with a hat-holder having a central screwbolt inserted in theapertures in said plates and a nut on said screw-bolt, substantially asand for the purpose described.

4. A hat-holder composed ot' two separate members, one of which isslotted, the other provided with a screw-bolt, each member being formedwith lateral arms bent downward to form legs, a nut upon said bolt forclamping the two members together, in combination with a Spanner for thehat-box formed with apertures to receive said bolt and a nut on theouter end of said bolt, substantially as described.

JAMEb ELLIOT BAKER. Titnessesz H. ALBERTIS WEs'r, E. GEISMAR.

